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Soda Pop And Its Problem
Number of words: 466 - Number of pages: 2.... later in life she will
probably be in a wheelchair or have bone problems. Most people don't think
ahead that far in life to really care. But when your older you are going
to wish you would have drank more milk. People are drinking more pop than
of milk nowadays because of the taste and of the advertising of these
beverages. If you do not like the taste of milk there is soy milk which
will give you the calcium you need.
Pop also can be very addictive. Some people crave the taste and
feel of pop and need to have it in their diet. Pepsi and Coke have the
cola-bean in them. This ingredie .....
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The Case For Euthanasia: Should Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legalized?
Number of words: 1546 - Number of pages: 6.... to this most delicate of issues. In the hopes of
clarification, we must first distinguish between active and passive
euthanasia. Passive euthanasia involves the patient's refusal of medical
assistance. It involves the right to die which is protected by the United
States Constitution clauses of due process liberty and the right to privacy
(Fourteenth Amendment). The right to doctor-assisted suicide, or active
euthanasia, consists of, "...a patient's right to authorize a physician to
perform an act that intentionally results in the patient's death, without
the physician's being held civil .....
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Autism
Number of words: 311 - Number of pages: 2.... out of 10,000 may
have autism or a related condition. About 125,000 Americans are affected by
these disorders, and nearly 4,000 families across the country have two or more
children with autism. Three times as many boys as girls have autism.
Researchers are still unsure about what causes autism. Several studies
suggest that autistic disorder might be caused by a combination of biological
factors, including exposure to a virus before birth, a problem with the immune
system, or genetics.
Scientists also have identified chemicals in the brain and the immune
system that may be involved .....
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Transplants And Diabetes
Number of words: 417 - Number of pages: 2.... Then both the treated and
control groups received injections of approximately 500-800 islets of
Langerhans from unrelated donors. Of the five treated animals, two
became clinically and biochemically permanently normal. Six months later,
Martin examined the cured rats and found intact, functioning islets
secreting all of their hormones, including insulin. None of the controls
were cured.
Encouraged by their first results, Leibel, Martin, and Zingg decided to
repeat the experiment with rats with much stronger immune barriers
(higher levels of rejection). Seven rats out of nine were cured. "W .....
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Ebola: A Contagious Trend
Number of words: 975 - Number of pages: 4.... does not seem pose a threat to humans in any way.
“Ebola viruses are spread though direct contact with a person who is very ill with the disease. Usually wide-spread action of the virus takes place among hospital care workers or family members who were aiding an infected person.” Ebola can spread by the reuse of hypodermic needles, which occurs frequently in under-developed countries like Zaire and Sudan, but it is not likely to be infected by close contact with people infected, who show no signs of symptoms. As well as, there is no proof that the virus can be contracted through our a .....
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Multiple Personality Disorder
Number of words: 962 - Number of pages: 4.... out by looking into the Internet. I have the Internet at home, so it was easiest for me to start with. MPD was not a very common subject on the Internet. I couldn’t fine too much information on MPD, and I became very frustrated. Whenever I conducted a search on MPD, I would find DID instead. I wasn’t quite sure what DID was, but I had a feeling that it was some what related to MPD. My next step was to look into an encyclopedia.
I looked up MPD on Encarta. There were not any articles on MPD, but it said to look into DID. So, I did. When I looked up the article on DID, guess .....
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The Roy Adaptation Model
Number of words: 2270 - Number of pages: 9.... is not ready for restrictions on its ways of thinking. It's my belief
that this act of advocating a single unified model was an act of multi-oppressed
thinking influenced by men, the Roman Catholic Church and the medical world.
During a 1987 conference of nursing theorists, Sister Roy made a number
of deferring remarks to a speech made earlier by a male Bishop.
Fawcett also says the Roy Adaptation Model has an extensive vocabulary
and that some familiar words (ie adaption) have been given new meanings in Roy's
attempt to translate mechanistic ideas into organismic ones.
O .....
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Crohn's Disease
Number of words: 345 - Number of pages: 2.... said that your diet can affect how affects you. Diarrhea is one of the most common symptoms of .
can also be referred to as IBD, which stands for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. It can also be referred to as Ulcerative Colitis, or simply colitis, enteritis, ileitis or proctitis.
This disease is not very threatening, but can cause someone to have surgery, which sometimes can be life threatening. This disease affects the bowel causing it to narrow. Sometimes, obstruction can be acutely caused by the ingestion of poorly digestible fruit or vegetables that can act as a cork and plug the a .....
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AIDS Research
Number of words: 451 - Number of pages: 2.... a lot of
funding whether it be private or government funding. This money is exceptionally
important, as it provides the equipment, and the peoples salary who are doing
the research. The amount of money needed for the research may seem like it is a
lot, but it is worth it. It is worth it because if you consider the amount of
money that we give to foreign countries to aid their economy we could be using
this money to save peoples lives all around the world. People are dieing
everyday, and many more are in hospitals; so if we find the cure we will save
lives, and get these people who have cont .....
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Cognitive Dissonance
Number of words: 2030 - Number of pages: 8.... and
the conflicts that arose between them. When two people have conflicting opinions
or tension is felt between another person, it is more likely persuasion will
occur. Because if no tension was felt between the two parties, or there were no
conflicting opinions there would be no need to persuade each other. If you think
about it persuasion occurs only because there is tension between two facts,
ideas or people.
Charles Larson writes in his book, Persuasion, Reception and
Responsibility, “another approach to the consistency theory is congruency theory,
by Charles Osgood and Perc .....
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